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Headquartered within steps of the USPTO with an affiliate office in Tokyo, Oblon is one of the largest law firms in the United States focused exclusively on intellectual property law.
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1968
Norman Oblon with Stanley Fisher and Marvin Spivak launched what was to become Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, LLP, one of the nation's leading full-service intellectual property law firms.
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Proposes to Redefine "Materiality" in its Duty of Disclosure Rules Consistent with Federal Circuit's Therasense Decision
On July 21, 2011, the USPTO published proposed rules §§ 1.56(b) and 1.555(b) to revise the materiality standard for the duty to disclose information to the USPTO in patent applications and reexamination proceedings in view of the Federal Circuit's decision in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co., ___ F.3d ___, 2011 WL 2028255 (Fed. Cir. 2011) (en banc). The revision to section 1.56, which is substantively identical to the proposed new section 1.555(b) is as follows:
Oblon, Spivak's Richard Kelly Quoted in Law360 Regarding the Supreme Court's Decision to Hear More IP Cases in the Upcoming Term
In a recent Law360 article, Oblon, Spivak's Richard Kelly is quoted regarding the Supreme Court's decision to hear more intellectual property cases in the upcoming term: Golan v. Holder, Mayo v. Prometheus Laboratories, Kappos v. Hyatt and Caraco v. Novo Nordisk.
Law360, San Diego (July 12, 2011)
